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Subject: 
Re: Mecha Legs
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lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.underground
Date: 
Thu, 20 Jul 2000 03:19:08 GMT
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
hulls....) In any case, I'm sure that there is a wide range for fair use,
and that certainly covers making a model based on the one pictured. It
*absolutely* permits making a model based on *ideas* found there.

To further clarify: this is what design patents are for.

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  Re: Mecha Legs
 
(...) Sure, the jpg images are copyrighted. I don't think that the design for a model expressed therein necessarily is. (I'm not a lawyer, but if I were, I'm sure I could dredge up some precedent / example here. There was a special exception added (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.underground)

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